| When I think about what might be the most overriding theme of my life, it would be an absolute love and devotion to truth. Not the fleeting truths of individuals, or political regimes. Not the obscure thumbnail sketches of truth we hear about and are so motivated by in our various religions. All of these are pieces in a much larger puzzle. Science is the most important tool we have to clarify these things today. The reasons that I am motivated by truth are universal. People of vision everywhere should easily see why truth is better in the long run than convenient or malicious deceptions or than the much more prevalent self-deception. People who are ignorant or evil invariably either cannot see truth or are not motivated by it. Of course, you have to be capable of seeing the grandeur of truth to be motivated by it. I believe these ideas about the supreme importance of truth are backed up not just by personal logic, but by what the evidence of history and science tells us about the natural order of things. It is not for man to decide what justice is, but eternity. Eternity decides and judges above all men. With modern science and the information society, we can see eternal themes threaded all through our world. These themes to me are the book of life -- those stable, immortal, principles which brought life into being in the first place. These things are reflected equally in the periodic table of the elements and in the principles of our own psychology. Psychology was my first love, the science of how our own brains work. I was so concerned about truth that I wanted to be sure my own psychology was not taking part in artificially forming my ideas of the world. Fortunately, I was not discouraged. Humans above all animals have the unique quality in our best minds to override our individual psychologies and learn the most eternal and universal truths -- no matter how uncomplimentary. This love and devotion to truth is what makes us most human. It is also what gives rise to our various religions. Especially when you read the original writings of those who started religions, and when you realize what symbols and cultural ideas they had to work with, What they are really saying in the modern information-society context becomes increasingly apparent. We need not filter the truth through the foibles of men any longer -- it is in the book of life for all to read. This is the impetus for my first book. The universe itself is a great text book to be read. In order to read it fully and to survive into the long-term future, I fully realize now (no matter how politically untenable...), we have no choice but to do sweeping natural eugenics. I truly believe this is what the written universe itself is telling us. It is what made us... As always, if we do not heed the eternal creator, we will not survive. No natural law is more certain than this. The black tide of ignorance is the adversary in all its manifestations. We will never survive this black death. And you will see after reading my book, that we may never get another chance. This is it. Decisions have consequences and there are no do-overs any more for very objective reasons... with my writings, I want to help to save the world. That's it. |
